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Exploring Ways to Move Past Implicit Bias Erik J. Girvan, J.D., Ph.D. University of Oregon School of Law

Naïve Realism 1. I see stimuli, issues, and events as they are in objective reality. 2. Other rational social perceivers generally share my judgments and reactions – provided that they have had access to the same information that I do. 3. If someone does not share my judgments and reactions: A. They have different (less) knowledge or information than me  solution = share or pool information  agreement They are biased, duplicitous, stupid, etc. B.  Solution = delegitimize and disregard

Naïve Realism  Systematically discount the extent to which disagreement with others is also attributable to our own biases or lack of knowledge.

Short Cuts and Heuristics

Quick Exercise

Quick Exercise

Quick Exercise

Removing (irrelevant) features can de-bias our perceptions

Quick Exercise

Automatic Categorization and Association

Categorization effects  Over-emphasize perceived similarities within categories or groups and the differences between categories or groups

Over-Emphasize Within-Group Similarities & Between-Group Differences Winner of Random Pairings: • Men = 65% • Women = 35%

Availability Heuristic

Gun Deaths (fivethirtyeight.com)

Terrorism, mass shootings, police

Suicides

2016 Election Air Force Times SFGate

2016 Election (NY Times, 2016) (1,000,000 = 1 square)  324 million people  1 million = 1 square

2016 Election (1,000,000 = 1 square) (NY Times, 2016)  Primaries:  4% Trump  5% Clinton

2016 Election  General Election:  63 million Trump  65 million Clinton

Political Parties (Pew, 2018)

Negotiate with North Korea? Agree Approve Negotiation: 63% Agree Disapprove Negotiation: 15% 78% Agreement

US Foreign Involvement? 21% Type equation here. 22% 21%+ 64% Agreement

Is Russia Hostile? 25% 39% 17%+ 81% Agreement

Opinions of Fed. Agencies 55% 22%+ 77% Agreement

94% 76% 80% 71% 74% 93% 78% 81%

100% 90% 98% 74% 71% 70%

Science

Impacts?

Inequity in Job Applications (Pager et al., 2009)

Oregon Criminal Justice Commission  In 2015, controlling for estimates of rates of drug use, Black Oregonians were more than 3.5 times more likely than White Oregonians to be convicted of felony drug use.

Gender disparities (NY Times, 2018)

Police/Community Relations

Solutions? Daryl Davis

Thank you! Erik J. Girvan University of Oregon School of Law 1221 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1221 (541) 346-8934 ~ girvan@uoregon.edu